Axton Reading Series with Adam O. Davis

Please join us for a reading from author of Pyrrhic Symphony and Index of Haunted Houses. He’s the winner of the Raz/Shumaker Book Prize from Prairie Schooner and of the Kathryn A. Morton poetry prize, and finalist for the Big Other Book Award for Poetry. He’s the recipient of the 2022 Poetry International Prize and the 2016 George Bogin Memorial award from the Poetry Society of America. He’s received grants and fellowships from The Bishop's School, Columbia University, the New Literary Project, the Prague Summer Program for Writers, and Vermont Studio Center. His work has appeared widely in journals and anthologies, including The Believer, The Best American Poetry, Boston Review, The Cincinnati Review, Denver Quarterly, the Paris Review, the Poetry Review, the Southern Review, West Branch, and ZYZZYVA.
This event will take place in the Bingham Poetry Room on the first floor of Ekstrom Library at the University of Louisville.